Around the Year with Emmet Fox - 4 October 2010
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Around the Year with Emmet Fox - 4 October 2010
THE KINDLING OF GOD
Read Psalm 18 (posted HERE)
In verse 28 the Psalmist moves to another phase of the teaching. Thou wilt light my candle; the Lord my Go will enlighten my darkness.
Many similes have been offered by religious teachers to illustrate the relationship between God and man. One of the best known and most helpful is to think of man as a spark from a great fire, which is God. The spark is not the whole of the fire but it is part of it, and therefore of the same nature, and possesses, potentially, all the characteristics of the parent fire. It can ignite many things upon which it falls, thus producing another fire essentially of the same nature as the original fire.
Read Psalm 18 (posted HERE)
In verse 28 the Psalmist moves to another phase of the teaching. Thou wilt light my candle; the Lord my Go will enlighten my darkness.
Many similes have been offered by religious teachers to illustrate the relationship between God and man. One of the best known and most helpful is to think of man as a spark from a great fire, which is God. The spark is not the whole of the fire but it is part of it, and therefore of the same nature, and possesses, potentially, all the characteristics of the parent fire. It can ignite many things upon which it falls, thus producing another fire essentially of the same nature as the original fire.
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Originally Posted by Charmie 
thank you for posting these DT.
one of my sponsees just bought me this book and presented me with it on sunday.
what a lovely gift to have recieved!
one of my sponsees just bought me this book and presented me with it on sunday.
what a lovely gift to have recieved!
.....whatta nice sponsee!!!
--does that mean we're going to alternate posting the reading for the day??
lol
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